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Rockefeller Foundation Research Finds College Degree Can Be A Blunt and Inaccurate Way For Evaluating Real Talent

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03/22/2017

Rockefeller Foundation Research Finds College Degree Can Be A Blunt and Inaccurate Way For Evaluating Real Talent There 039 ;s a harrowing disconnect in the hiring world: While...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Supports Mobile Content Guides at New York Botantical Gardens Spring Exhibit

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03/28/2017

... at New York Botantical Gardens Spring Exhibit CHIHULY, a major new exhibition at The New York Botanical Garden in spring 2017, will spotlight world-renowned artist Dale ... York on January 12, 2017, Chihuly...

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Surdna, JPB Foundations Provide Grants to Help Low-Income Communities Access Solar+Storage Solutions

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03/29/2017

... housing developers have been selected to receive grants from Clean Energy Group’s Resilient Power Leadership ... technologies. The Resilient Power Project, a joint initiative of Clean Energy Group and Meridian...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Supported by Mellon Foundation, Hybrid Publishing Platform Launches In Beta Form

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04/07/2017

... by Mellon Foundation, Hybrid Publishing Platform Launches In Beta Form The University of Minnesota Press on Tuesday launched a beta version of Manifold , a publishing platform it hopes .....

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Capital One, Howard Gilman, and Doris Duke Support City Parks SummerStage 2017 Season

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04/11/2017

... will showcase over 150 unique artists performing shows from a plethora of genres and disciplines, including indie-rock, ...

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Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Supports Employment Opportunities for Adults with Disabilities

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04/18/2017

... Employment Opportunities for Adults with Disabilities With a lack of employment and inclusion opportunities, individuals ... developmental disabilities (IDD) struggle to be integrated in the communities...

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The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation

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Community Development

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Open Society Awards $8 Million to Physicians for Human Rights

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04/19/2017

... Human Rights has announced an $8 million challenge grant from the Open Society Foundations in support of its efforts to advance human rights through ... contribution in PHR...

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Aetna Foundation Leverages Philanthropic Investment to Build Healthier Communities

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04/20/2017

... that can find new ways to improve health equity in their neighborhoods. That funding comes in many forms — from nationwide competitions to incentivize cities and ...

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Food Systems

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Ford Foundation Supports GenForward Survey on Young Americans' Perceptions of Trump

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04/21/2017

... keeps going back to the same memory of Donald Trump, then a candidate for president of the United States, referring to ... saying that (if) you’re the president,” says Anderson, a 21-year-old student ...

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Hyde and Watson Foundation Supports New Green Roof at New Jersey School

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04/21/2017

... at New Jersey School Montclair Kimberley Academy (MKA) is a buzz with activities this spring involving their K through ... The Green Roof officially opened on Tuesday, April 18 in time to celebrate Earth Day...

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NYSHealth to Provide Funding For Free Health And Wellness Programming at Randall’s Island Park

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04/21/2017

... Island Park Alliance announced that it has been awarded a 175,000 dollar grant from the New York State Health Foundation to provide funding ... and wellness programming at Randall’s Island Park, with a...

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New Leader, New Era: Rockefeller Foundation Plots Its Course

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04/27/2017

... no stranger to politics or philanthropy. He spent nearly a decade at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and served ... nonprofits working overseas. What may be just as important in his new role, however,...

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United Hospital Fund Expands its Outpatient Antibiotic Stewardship Initiative

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04/28/2017

... and health systems encompassing 35 outpatient practices. In Stage I of the Outpatient Initiative, started in February ... 2016 with $310,000 in UHF funding, data was collected from...

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United Hospital Fund Honors 31 Health Care Trustees

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05/02/2017

... presented Distinguished Trustee Awards to 31 trustees from New York metropolitan area hospitals and health care organizations at a luncheon today at Cipriani 42nd Street. The honorees were ... as UHF—to ensure...

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W.T. Grant Funds Research on How Technology Use Affects At-Risk Youth

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05/03/2017

... Youth More use of technology is linked to later increases in attention, behavior and self-regulation problems for adolescents already at risk for mental health issues, a new study from Duke...

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Novo Foundation, Carnegie and Ford Support Women for Afghan Women

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05/04/2017

... Women for Afghan Women Before Afghanistan turned into a war zone in the late 1970s and then came under Taliban rule in the ... a third of the country—and women also facing...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Gender Justice

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"Demonization" of George Soros Recalls Old Anti-Semitic Conspiracies

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05/16/2017

... of George Soros Recalls Old Anti-Semitic Conspiracies In most nations, having a billionaire financier and philanthropist would be a source ... billionaire and Holocaust survivor has spread...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Michael Bloomberg Gives $75 Million to Shed Arts Center

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05/24/2017

... The ambitious new arts center known as the Shed, rising in Hudson Yards, has received $75 million from Michael R. Bloomberg, showing just how much the Far West Side continues to be shaped by a...

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Peterson Foundation Fiscal Summit Convenes Nation’s Leaders To Discuss “Rising Debt in a Changing Economy”

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05/24/2017

... Convenes Nation’s Leaders To Discuss “Rising Debt in a Changing Economy” Leading voices and policymakers from across the political spectrum gathered to discuss the ...

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